Emilea Zingas

Zingas began skating as a preschooler and started training at age seven with Lindsay O'Donoghue and Brooke Castile O'Keefe in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.[5] Competing for the United States early in her career, she won the 2018 U.S. national novice silver medal in her only trip to the U.S. Championships.[6]

During the 2020–21 season, Zingas took advantage of her gap semester and switched nationalities to compete for Cyprus.[1] She made her international competitive debut at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, where she finished seventh. Zingas later competed at 2020 Ice Star and 2020 Santa Claus Cup, where she finished fifth and second, respectively. She noted that she was grateful to have the opportunity to travel internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as she was returning to her Michigan training base between events in Europe.[4]

At the 2021 Challenge Cup in February, Zingas won the bronze behind Belgian Loena Hendrickx and Emmy Ma of Chinese Taipei, as well as earned her technical minimums to qualify for the 2021 World Championships. She is the first Cypriot skater to ever qualify for the World Championships.[1] During the short program at the World Championships in March, Zingas popped a planned triple Lutz into a single, and fell on the triple flip in her planned triple flip-triple toe loop combination, both of which severely impacted her score. She finished thirty-sixth in the segment and did not advance to the free skate.[7]

After a tenth-place finish at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup event, Zingas was assigned to compete at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to attempt to qualify a berth for Cyprus at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She placed ninth at the event, resulting in Cyprus being the second reserve for the Olympics.[8]